Institut Gustave Roussy
Gustave Roussy is the first leader cancer-research hospital in Europe and ranked among the top 5 best specialized hospitals in the world . It is a centre for high quality patient care, research and teaching. It is highly-known for the treatment of (among others): skin cancers like melanoma, breast cancer, and lung cancer. It provides access to care with many expert doctors who have historically revolutionized the treatment of cancer and contributed to the surge of new molecules in the treatment of cancers and tumors. It is located in the Parisian area. It is named after Gustave Roussy, a Swiss-French neuropathologist.
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| Geography | |
| Location | Villejuif, France |
| Organisation | |
| Type | Research center, Teaching Hospital |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 457 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1926 |
| Links | |
| Website | https://www.gustaveroussy.fr/en |
| Lists | Hospitals in France |
Notable people
- Gustave Roussy, first director (1921–1947)
- Tabaré Vázquez
- Maurice Tubiana, fifth director (1982–1988) and member of the French Academy of Sciences
- Georges Mathé, oncologist and immunologist who performed in 1959 the first successful bone marrow transplant not performed on identical twins.[1]
- Frédéric Triebel, discoverer of the immune checkpoint molecule LAG3, worked at the institute from 1986 until around 2001
- Barbara Tudek (1952-2019), biologist and professor who served as president of the Polish section of the European Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society
Awards and Rankings
In 2020, the Institut Gustave Roussy was ranked as the first leading cancer hospital in Europe and in the top 5 best specialized hospitals in the world.[2]
Incidents
In 2017, a virologist from the Institut Gustave Roussy was sentenced to 5 years in prison for poisoning colleagues with sodium azide in 2014.[3]
Notes
- Martin, Douglas (20 October 2010). "Dr. Georges Mathé, Transplant Pioneer, Dies at 88". New York Times.
- "Oncology". Newsweek. 23 September 2020.
- "A l'Institut Gustave-Roussy, un scientifique empoisonne ses collègues". Franceinfo (in French). 2017-12-13. Retrieved 2018-09-10.